Cambridge Audio 80 Series: 85/86/89 DVD player

85/86/89 DVD player: Cambridge Audio 80 Series

85/86/89 DVD player

Connection to a 2 Channel Audio System/TV

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Connecting to a 5.1 Input Audio System

Connecting to an amplifier with Dolby Digital or DTS

Digital input connections

Coaxial in

Optical In

Rear

Panel

Front Left Speaker

Centre Speaker

Front Right Speaker

Amplifier with 5.1 Audio Input

L

Sub

Subwoofer

R

Front

Surr

Centre

Surround

Surround

Left Speaker

Right Speaker

The built-in Dolby Digital decoder inside your 80 Series DVD player

makes it possible to play discs recorded with Dolby Digital. This is

achieved simply by connecting your player to an amplifier and an

appropriate home theatre loudspeaker package

Manufactured under license from Dolby laboratories. “Dolby and the double-D

symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Confidential unpublished works.

“5.1” means 5 main channels of output (front left, front right, centre,

1992-1997 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved.

surround left, surround right) plus subwoofer (the “.1”).

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85/86/89 DVD player

FRONT PANEL CONTROLS

Power

On/Off

Stop

Switches the unit from Off to On.

Stops the Disc playing. If Play is pressed shortly afterwards, the DVD will

resume play in the place where it was stopped. Pressing stop twice will

take you to the start of the disc. A Compact disc will stop and a message

Open/Close

will appear on screen. Press PLAY to continue.

Allows you to open and close the disc tray to load a disc. The disc will

begin loading when the tray is closed. Pressing Play will also close the

Skip/Scan

tray and start the Disc.

Allows for skipping between the chapters on the DVD disc or tracks on a

CD.

Play/Pause

Note:

To perform the scan function from the player it requires the button

Plays the disc and pauses play.

to be held down for a few seconds and then released. Repeating this

process will increase the speed of the scanning function.

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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS - DVD MENU DISPLAY

All of these menus are accessed from the blue Cambridge Logo screen

SACD:

Allows you to switch between 2 channel, multi channel and CD

that appears when the DVD player is on with no disc in the tray. Pressing

Mode output.

the SETUP button on the remote brings up the DVD menu display. It is

PSCAN:

Allows you to switch between interlace and progressive scan

accessed by the cursors and select button in the centre of the remote.

outputs via the component video connections.

DVD89

Only

When you press the setup button two options will be displayed, common

Spectrum:

Turns On/Off the on-screen 13 bar EQ display.

and professional.

Analogue

Output

Mode:

Switches between interlaced or progressive

Press the common setup, to setup basic functions, or the professional

video scanning.

setup for more advanced settings.

Speaker

Set

Up

Downmix:

Switches off the surround soundtrack (5.1 analogue output

section) and outputs a stereo signal from the 2 channel Left and Right

Outputs.

Front,

Centre

and

Rear

Speaker

Settings:

adjusts the DVD decoder to

compensate between large and small speakers and the size of the

General

Setup

signal it sends to the subwoofer.

Subwoofer

Off/On:

TV

Display:

Informs the player if a subwoofer is present. If it is

Allows you to alter between 16.9 widescreen and 4.3

present the low frequencies are split off and sent to the subwoofer, if not

conventional image.

the complete audio spectrum will be heard through the front channel.

SCART:

Switches the SCART output between RGB and Composite Video.

Channel

Delay:

Allows the distance between the listening position and

You will need a suitably equipped television to handle a component

the centre, subwoofer, rear left and rear right speakers to be individually

signal.

set (in cm). This is to enable the surround sound to be optimised for

Screensaver:

If the DVD is left on and inactive, it will switch to a

different listening room sizes and shapes.

screensaver to minimise energy consumption and screen burn. It can be

switched off here.

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